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Draping

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Drape \Drape\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Draped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Draping}.] [F. draper, fr. drap cloth. See 3d {Drab}.]
   1. To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as
      with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.

            The whole people were draped professionally. --De
                                                  Quincey.

            These starry blossoms, [of the snow] pure and white,
            Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have
            draped the woods and mere.            --Bungay.

   2. To rail at; to banter. [Obs.] --Sir W. Temple.
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